blockhouse

Example Sentences

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Pte Malcolm, a stretcher bearer, was found when unidentified remains were recovered from a shell hole outside a German blockhouse in Fusilier Wood, near Klein-Zillebeke, Belgium.

From BBC • May 10, 2023

Others are posing on the porch of an officer’s house and in front of the blockhouse, which are still on the property.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023

On the other side of the draw was a similar position and further inland above the exit from the beach was another concrete blockhouse with its 88-gun pointing down the approach.

From Fox News • Jun. 3, 2019

By one p.m. they were strapped into their couches, familiar from hours spent in vacuum-chamber tests in Houston, and Slayton left for the blockhouse, where he would monitor the test.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2019

“We’re going to build our blockhouse back,” I said.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam